Women's Volleyball

Lee Named to Volleyball Academic All-District V Team

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Notre Dame senior outside hitter
Jaimie Lee (Spokane, Wash.) is among six players who have been
named to the 1997 GTE Academic All-District V team, as selected
by the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA).

The award comes just days after Lee was selected as the 1997
BIG EAST Conference player of the year and BIG EAST tournament
most valuable player. She is one of 48 Division I volleyball
players to be named to one of the eight Academic All-District
teams.

CoSIDA next will evaluate the 48 Academic All-District
selections and then will name six to the GTE Academic
All-America first team, six to the second team and six to the
third team. The volleyball Academic All-America teams are to be
announced Dec. 10.

Lee owns a 3.341 cumulative grade-point average as a sociology
major and was named to the Notre Dame Dean's List during both
semesters of her junior year. She repeated as BIG EAST player
of the year and then earned BIG EAST Tournament MVP honors
after totaling a career-best 29 kills in the title match versus
Villanova (setting a Notre Dame record for a four-game match).

Lee captained the United States team last summer to a
silver-medal finish at the 1997 World University Games in
Catania, Sicily. She led the BIG EAST this season with a .451
hitting percentage in conference play while ranking sixth in
the conference with 4.33 kills per game. For the entire 1997
season, Lee ranks fourth among BIG EAST players with a .307
hitting percentage while averaging 4.31 kills/gm (second in the
BIG EAST) and a team-best 2.89 digs per game.

In six matches versus nationally-ranked teams, Lee has averaged
4.40 kills/gm, highlighted by 20 kills versus then-#2 Florida
She is the only player in the Notre Dame career top 10 for
hitting percentage, kills, digs, aces, blocks and assists and
has appeared in 97.8 percent (131 of 134) of Notre Dame's
matches in her career, missing two of those matches during the
World University Games.